1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Author not available In his address on the opening day of the 22nd IAEA General Conference, Dr. Eklund departed from presenting the traditional balance sheet of the Agency's work and spoke about the status of nuclear energy in the world today sharing some of his concerns about certain trends in this
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Vas, K. (Kozponti Elelmiszeripari Kutato Intezet, Budapest (Hungary)) The safety for human consumption of irradiated food items has been exhaustively studied on a large scale for at least two decades. It is thought to establish internationally accepted standards on irradiated foods within the framework of Codex Alimentarius as set up by the Joint
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Swindell, G.E. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Nuclear Safety and Environmental Protection) The following points are briefly discussed: 1) The development of the IAEA transport regulations. 2) the basic requirements of the IAEA regulations. 3) the future development of the IAEA regulations
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Swindell, G.E. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Nuclear Safety and Environmental Protection) This document presents, very briefly, some data which has been collected, in particular for the USA concerning the transport of radioactive materials and other related topics. It also shows up some features on the more specific problems connected with the transport of plutonium
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Gros Espiell, H. (Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America) The present paper deals with 1) the signatories of the Treaty, 2) implementation of the Treaty, 3) structure and operation of OPANAL (Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America)
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Vohra, K.G. (Department of Atomic Energy, Bombay (India)) Quantitative risk analysis based on the human experience of exposure to ionizing radiation has been used for assessing the risks of cancer mortality for different doses. The risk corresponding to the estimated dose of 5 mrem for groups of individuals exposed to discharges from
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 5 | by Iansiti, E.; Konstantinov, L It is considered that international agreement on five Codes of Practice for nuclear power plants will be available in a few months. Four to six Safety Guides are expected to be published by the end of 1978 or early in 1979. Most of the Safety Guides presented above may be
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